Chief Technology Officer
Location: GB, , London
Department: Product
Salary range: 90000-110000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
Axonix is a global mobile advertising technology company that's powered by a platform with a 4 year history of leading the market. Using technology acquired from Mobclix, the world’s first RTB-enabled mobile ad exchange, Axonix offers a fully transparent programmatic trading platform that enables publishers to sell their mobile advertising inventory in real-time to brands, agencies and ad networks globally.We serve billions of ads per month across more than 150+ countries, working with our 100+ demand partners globally to achieve industry-leading CPMs, CTRs and fill rates. With built-in fraud detection controls and data-driven targeting options, we help advertisers to secure the optimal ad inventory that will deliver the best campaign results for them.Axonix is headquartered in central London and backed by Telefonica and private equity group, Blackstone.OUR PHILOSOPHY TO HIRINGOur technology serves billions of mobile ads every month, across more than 150 countries. Our company is truly global in scale. We're growing so fast we need to hire the best people out there.People who thrive on fresh challenges. People who want to see their work make an impact, right away. People who demand a lot from themselves and others. We hire someone when we’re sure “There’s no better person for this job, and no better person we’d rather work with.”We know people are our most important asset. If you're exceptional at what you do, we want to hear from you. The next stage in your career could start today.

Job description:
Our product and development teams form the engine that drives our ambition to build the world’s best mobile advertising platform. To strengthen its new executive team, Axonix is seeking a Chief Technology Officer who will be responsible for defining our product roadmap and turning this into best-in-class code that delivers an awesome customer experience. The Chief Technology Officer will ensure the successful execution of the company's business plan through the development and deployment of the company’s products. The CTO will define the key features, enhancements and innovations that will ensure Axonix is the best mobile advertising platform for our target customers. The CTO will then also lead the Software Development Team to turn the product vision and roadmap into best-in-class code on-time and to-specification.They will need a deep understanding of the marketplace we operate in, identifying the key requirements of our priority customer segments that offer opportunities for us to create unique and differentiated solutions that perfectly satisfy those needs. They will also build and maintain an extensive understanding of the global competitor landscape to inform on our product positioning, communication strategy and development roadmap priorities.  In addition, the CTO will work closely with the Commercial and Marketing team leaders to develop the go-to-market and launch strategies for new products and features, building a winning value proposition, pricing strategy and communications plan.As with all small, entrepreneurial companies, the CTO will be expected to perform a multitude of tasks beyond the role's core responsibilities, and we are seeking an entrepreneurial leader who can contribute across the whole business. Axonix is headquartered in London but is a global business so it is very likely that the CTO will be required to work across Europe, North and South America and Asia-Pacific to support the establishment of new offices and drive local growth in other countries.We are seeking a skilled technology leader, with a heritage of defining and developing market-leading software solutions. With a strong background in product management, you will be adept at understanding both explicit and ill-defined future customer requirements, as well as competitive trends in the external market, to define PRDs that will create unique and value-adding positions in the market. With additional experience of managing software development teams, you will have proven abilities to deliver solutions with an optimal balance between development efforts, deployment costs and time-to-market, whilst ensuring product requirements are met.  Ideally, you will have a solid technical understanding of programmatic media buying and be familiar with the latest software languages and coding techniques.This is a critical role within the business, reporting directly into the CEO and working alongside the executive management team to formulate and execute the business acceleration strategy. It is an exceptional opportunity for a talented senior-level Product Manager with experience of the advertising technology industry to join a fast-paced, industry-leading, global company. 

Requirements:
Core role objectivesDefine the product vision, strategy and roadmap, and lead the Software Development Team to ensure the delivery of new features on-time and to-specification.Develop a deep understanding of customer use-cases and competitors’ solutions to identify key product enhancement features and new product opportunities that would satisfy current and future customer problems/requirements and create differentiation in the market.Work with the Commercial and Marketing teams to create integrated go-to-market strategies, including clear &amp; differentiating customer value propositions.Own the technical development of the Axonix platform to ensure its robustness, quality and on-time delivery against specification.Lead, motivate and manage the software development team to promote best practices and ensure a collaborative and efficient team culture. Provide periodic feedback to developers to ensure their commitment and personal development.Evangalise and promote Axonix across the mobile advertising industry. Key responsibilitiesIdentify distinct customer segments, prioritize areas of focus and determine the segment problems, needs and characteristics.Understand the competitive landscape/offerings and define Axonix's unique &amp; differentiated positioning.Develop the product vision/strategy, defining new features and product enhancements to perfectly satisfy current and future customer requirements in our priority segments.Deliver the stability, availability and scalability according to the demand expected on platform.Create detailed product requirement specifications to enable the Software Development Team to translate the strategy and roadmap into finished code. Work closely with the Development Team to prioritise activities and ensure on-time, to-spec delivery.Create powerful messaging around Axonix's products &amp; services and work with the Commercial and Marketing Teams to develop a consistent go-to-market approaches that effectively communicate our unique value proposition to drive customer interest and adoption.Evangelize Axonix's Products &amp; Services internally and externallyProvide product training to internal teams and external customers as required.Maintain the Axonix University training programme to ensure all materials are up-to-date, easy to understand and effective at ensuring customers and employees fully understand how to use Axonix's key features.Provide sufficient flexibility in software design to allow product evolution to be as easy as possible in-line with the product roadmap.Lead and evangelize automation: many processes in the product will need to be automated, particularly QA and deployment.  Personal qualities and experience we’re looking forBA/BS degree (Masters or MBA an advantage)Deep understanding of the programmatic / real-time buying advertising industry, with extensive knowledge of ad serving, ad exchanges, DSPs, DMPs and SSP technologies - minimum 2 years in this industry, minimum 5 years in the digital advertising industrySenior-level product management experience, ideally having led the product strategies for other world-class international technology companies – minimum 10 years experienceProven track record of creating successful, value-adding software products, with the ability to develop and communicate clear ideas around market opportunities in a highly dynamic, competitive and unstructured environment.Strong knowledge of software development processes and languages, having led teams of software engineers to write, test and deploy new code.Detail-orientated executor, able to translate ideas into actionable plans and ensure these are followed through to completion on-time and to-specification.Strong communicator, presenter and public speaker – with experience of presenting at customer meetings and at large conferencesExperience of developing and delivering product training programmes, to be deployed both in-person and through online tutorials.Highly personable and persuasive leader, with exceptional oral and written communication skills, able to influence both internal and external stakeholders within a small, highly collaborative team environment.Entrepreneurial spirit, self-starter attitude &amp; highly adaptable – able to use own initiative to prioritise, multi-task and deliver under pressure within a fast-paced start-up environmentProven high achiever – with a passion for continuous personal developmentFamiliarity with most of the following technologies:◦      Amazon EC2◦      Java: Spring, Hibernate, Jersey, Servlets &amp; JSPs◦      Ant/Maven◦      MySQL &amp; NoSQL◦      Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)◦      Datawarehouse technologies: ETL, OLAP…◦      Indexing Software (Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Solr lucene)◦      Web development: HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, Knockout◦      Mobile SDK development: iOS, Android◦      Devops◦      High performance, high scalability, high availability systems

Benefits:
Competitive salary according to experienceAnnual bonus schemeGenerous flexible benefits packageEquity package